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Temporary Perfections
 Temporary PerfectionsFourth in the Guido Guerrieri series. A Marlowe like investigation into the disappearance of a student with too many friends.
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 Hotel Bosphorus Hotel Bosphorus
Esmahan Aykol

Debut novel and first in an Istanbul murder mystery series featuring Kati Hirschel, crime bookstore owner and accidental investigator.
UK Apr 2011 / US Jul 2011

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 Involuntary Witness Involuntary Witness
Gianrico Carofiglio

A nine-year-old boy is found murdered at the bottom of a well near a popular beach resort in southern Italy. It looks like a hopeless case for Guido Guerrieri, counsel for the defence.

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 Temporary Perfections Temporary Perfections
Gianrico Carofiglio

The fourth Guerrieri in the bestselling series, at last. Guerrieri investigates the disappearance of Manuela, the daughter of a rich couple in Bari.
UK Sep 2011

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 Reasonable Doubts Reasonable Doubts
Gianrico Carofiglio

The third in the best-selling Guido Guerrieri series. A neo-Fascist thug confesses to drug smuggling and is sentenced to serious time inside. Guerrieri takes on the appeal.
UK Jul 2007 / US Oct 2007

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 A Walk in the Dark A Walk in the Dark
Gianrico Carofiglio

The portrayal of a slice of Italian society not normally encountered in crime fiction and an immensely appealing flawed hero...
UK Sep 2010 / US Apr 2011

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 The Vampire of Ropraz The Vampire of Ropraz
Jacques Chessex

On a howling December day a lone walker discovers a tomb recently opened, the body of a young woman violated, left hand cut off, sex mutilated and heart cut out.
UK Oct 2008 / US Apr 2009

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 A Jew Must Die A Jew Must Die
Jacques Chessex

A novel based on a true story. On April 16, 1942 a handful of Swiss Nazis lure a Jewish cattle merchant into a stable and kill him with an iron bar.
UK Feb 2010 / US May 2010

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 The Public Prosecutor The Public Prosecutor
Jef Geeraerts

A tale of blackmail and murder. And a black-humoured satire of Opus Dei and its political machinations.
UK Apr 2009 / US Sep 2009

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 The Spoke The Spoke
Friedrich Glauser

A man is found in a Swiss village with a sharpened bicycle spoke embedded in his back...
UK Feb 2008 / US Jan 2009

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 Fever Fever
Friedrich Glauser

When two women are 'accidently' killed by gas leaks, Sergeant Studer investigates the thinly disguised double murder in Bern and Basel. The trail leads to a geologist dead from a tropical fever...

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 Fever
 
 
   
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